General Assembly Urged to Raise Funds to UNRWA, or Face Crisis

UNITED NATIONS (JTA)—The
General Assembly has received an
urgent appeal to provide more
funds for Arab refugees or face
a drastic curtailment of the ser-
vices and facilities provided for
them with resulting "further haro
ships . . . and political repercus-
sions."
The appeal was contained in the
annual report of Laurence Nlichel
more, commissioner-general of the
United Nations Relief and Works
Agency for Palestine Arab refu-
gees (UNRWA 1, published here.
Michelmore reported that

395,074 refugees were currently I
registered with his agency. He
predicted a deficit of between S3.-
300,000 and 53,800,000 for the fiscal
1969 and warned that UNRWA was
faced with the threat that its cash
reserves would soon be exhausted
- - perhaps early in 1970."
The UNRWA chief said the
agency had run a deficit in every
year but one since 1963. Ile at-
tributed the present crisis, how-
ever, to "the continuing conse-
quences of the June 1967 hostili-
ties in the Middle East, includ-
ing military occupation and the

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... And Then There's This Story

Abu
landlord,
Arab
"My
Achmed. is a businessman who
spends most of his time collect-
ing his rental fees and dealing in
other matters connected with the
management of extensive prop-
erties in Jerusalem; yet the Abu
Achmeds are bona fide refugees
with a proper UN certificate to
prove it," declares Raya Rinott.
one of the first Jews to move to
East Jerusalem after the Six-Da.).
War.
In a story featured in Hadassah
Magazine. Miss Rinott brings to
light a side of the Arab refugee
problem which is never mentioned
by the Arab speakers in the acri-
monious debates at UN assemblies.
"The fact is that the Abu
Achmed family never resided in
the Israeli sector of Jerusalem."
Miss Rinott points out. "But ii
1948 they owned an uninhabitable
two-room house in the Ethiopian
quarter. The loss of this house.
duly registered, made the Abu
Achmeds, their nine children and
even their innumerable grandchil-
dren refugee:, for all time and en-
titled to all the privileges thereof."
Once a month, Abu Achmed
and his wife doff their usual fine
clothing and dress in rags. This
is the day the UNRWA man
comes around with the monthly
rations, she said.
"Now Abu Achmed knows he is
playacting, as does the Arab
gentleman who doles out the ra-
tions. The important thing is to
play out one's role dutifully."
"My landlord," whose name she
has disguised because she doesn't
want to leave her home, regards
Miss Rinott "as a personal repre-

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Michelmore's report laid great
stress on what he called the "un-
certainty about the future which
has hung over the heads of the
refugees for 21 years." The re- .
port covers the period from July
1, 1968 to June 30, 1969. It noted
that prior to 1967, UNRWA pro-
vided assistance exclusively to
refugees from those parts of Pales-

The Michelmore report said
the flight of most refugees to
East Jordan in the wake of the
1967 84, ar created the "painful
anomaly" of well-equipped refu-
gee camps on the West Bank
being only partly occupied "while
their former inhabitants lived in
barely tolerable conditions" in
East Jordan. The report stated
that "shelling, air raids and
other hostilities" added to the
strains of exile and emergency
conditions there.

that his agency had not escaped
some of the consequences such as
arrests, detention and imprison-
ment of staff for alleged illegal
activities outside their official du-
ties. The UNRWA camps are
staffed almost entirely by Arabs.

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fanatic.'
" 'You see, just as I said, the resulting from hostilities across
Jews are responsible.'
the cease-fire lines. They felt the
" 'The Jews?' I shouted. The
man's a member of a Christian
sect. Ile believes that Jesus, his
Messiah will return when the
Jews have rebuilt their Temple.
Ile was trying to help matters
along.'
"'There you are,' shouted Abu
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" 'But the man isn't a Jew,' I
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" 'No, but his Messiah is!'
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fray," concludes Miss Rinott.

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and another, a very mismanaged

hospital which Tyler later turns ,

into a well functioning institution.

The plot involves the women as

well, and it provides a lesson for

Tyler who sees his wife Cathy

very little because of his thorough

devotion to his profession.

But Tyler also learns his lesson
in the long run. When be offers
poor advice, out of opposition to
excessive surgery, and must admit
that he erred by preventing an
operation which could have saved
a life, he abandons the ambition to
build up strong hospital institu-
tions for the benefit of the poor
and returns to private practice—
and the implication is that he will
now have more time for his loving
wife.
Kagar stems from a Jewish
immigrant family background.
His father, too, is the idealist, his
father's twin brother, a money-
maker. But the Jewish aspects
are incidental to the story.
Dr. Stilman, who is senior sur-
geon of the depatrment of urology
in the Jewish General Hospital in
Montreal, utilizes extensive medi-
cal knowledge in many of the
incidents describing the hospital
problems. Physicians will be espe-
cially intrigued by his novel.

A number of doctors are in•
volved. but primarily it is the
story of Richard Tyler, the idealist,
and Victor Kagar the schemer, the
charlatan, the quack, It is also the
story of hospitals—the major one
Wealth gotten by vanity shall be
from which Dr. Tyler was dis-
charged as a result of a plot by diminished: but he that gathereth
Kagar and his superior, Dr. Elliot by labor shall increase.—Proverbs
Blaine who was admired by Tyler, 13:11.

12—Friday, October 17, 1969

frustrations and fears of measures
taken for security reasons, such
as curfews, interrogations, deten-
tions and demolition of buildings,
and this had a detrimental effect
•
•on their morale."

The same stresses were felt by
sentative to his household of the tine which became Israel in 1943
Israeli government and of world who were living in Jordan. Leba- the 240,000 refugees remaining on
the
West Bank where, "as the
.Jewry. Sometimes, following an non. Syria and the Gaza Strip.
intense evening of watching Nas- Since June 1967, however, it has period of occupation lengthened
ser on television, he descends upon been providing assistance "on an and the prospect of a settlement
me with wild tirades against the emergency basis and as a tem- seemed to recede, demonstrations,
porary measure" to refugees dis- strikes and bomb explosions be-
state and Jews in general.
"One morning, with Cairo Radio placed by the Arab-Israel war. came more frequent and led to
screaming the news of the Al Aksa Of the latter, only a limited re- security counter-measures by the
Mosque fire, Abu Achmed was so turn has been possible and as a Israeli military authorities. This
action and reaction dislocated the
gleeful you would have thought it consequence UNRWA found itself
was the Great Synagogue in Tel providing aid to more than 200,000 work of schools and training cen-
ters
and imposed extra strains on
displaced
refugees
and
other
per-
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" 'If we wanted to burn mos-
"The refugees continue to ex-
According to Michelmore, the
ques,' I reminded him, 'we had
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"'Well maybe you didn't think
day, 10 A.M. to 1 P.M.
to their places of residence before tinuous feature of life." He stated
of it then,' reasoned Abu Achmed,
June 1967, their hopes for repatria-
'but you've done it now. There'll
tion to their original homes or
be a jihad, and all the Jews will
compensation for those not choos-
he finished.'
ing to return," the report said.
—Ridiculous,' I muttered.
"In the meantime, the refugees
'Everyone knows the fire was
started by an Australian religious were confronted constantly with

Stilman's Intriguing Medical Novel

Twice before Dr. Abram Stilman
of Montreal attracted interest with
two novels—"Mariette"and "Heal-
er of All Flesh." Physician turned
novelist, proving successful in both.
it is understandable that his third
novel, "Doctor in Court," just is-
sued by Fountainhead Publishers
of New York, should deal with a
set of medical problems and with
doctors In conflict.

continued deferment of hope of
return to their homes for all but
a small fraction of those who
had to move in 1967." He main-
tained that any reduction of aid
to the refugees "would have to
be carried out against the op-
position of the refugees them-
selves and of the Arab host
governments."

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